Jacka– Presents: Bad Grandpa
Bad Santa, Bad Teacher and now Bad Grandpa. At least these flicks let you know right up front that they’re going to be … bad.
Carrie
This “classic” horror pic is reimagined for the social media generation—and made all the more disturbing.
12 Years a Slave
This is one of the most searingly intense portraits of slavery ever committed to film, exercising onscreen brutality to bludgeon slavery’s grim, cruel and conscience-less degradation.
The Fifth Estate
The Fifth Estate is a dense, ponderous (and sometimes foul) look at Julian Assange and the complex array of secrets he helped leak.
Escape Plan
Seems like this one’s pretty expendable after all.
Captain Phillips
The fierce finale of this story was broadcast around the world more than three years ago. But even so, the film offers a surprise or two.
Machete Kills
The more people watch Machete kill, the more I wonder about the danger of forgetting that violence—real violence—isn’t at all a comedic caper.
Gravity
It’s a harrowing spaceship-themed roller-coaster ride of a movie, and it’s not without its content concerns. But in the end, we get out of our pods feeling inspired.
Parkland
John F. Kennedy was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital for treatment after he was shot in Dallas’ Dealey Plaza. Fifty years later, this film follows him there.
Runner Runner
Runner Runner is the readymade stuff of Saturday night movie dates, right? Wrong.